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Yanks win a wild one Ichiro extends hitting streak to 23 in 14-10 loss
Updated: Saturday May 19, 2001 2:52 AM
SEATTLE (AP) -- Tino Martinez felt good about his at-bats in Oakland earlier this week, despite going 3-for-13 in three games. After the New York Yankees outslugged the Seattle Mariners on Friday night for a 14-10 win, Martinez felt relief. "We just needed a win, period," he said. Martinez went 4-for-5 with a three-run homer and four RBIs as the Yankees snapped a four-game losing streak and ended Seattle's eight-game winning streak. David Justice also hit a three-run homer for New York. The Mariners, baseball's winningest team, gave up their most runs this season. "When they tied us up, we didn't quit," Yankees manager Joe Torre said. "I thought that was a plus for us that we kept fighting. We did a lot of little things well tonight and a lot of good things came out of it." Seattle rookie Ichiro Suzuki extended his hitting streak to 23 games. He got three hits and matched the team record of seven straight multihit games shared by Ken Griffey Jr. and Joey Cora. Suzuki has the longest hitting streak in the majors this year, and is one shy of the Mariners' mark set by Cora in 1997. Suzuki doubled and singled twice, and scored three times. Suzuki stole two bases as Seattle tied a team record with five steals. He leads the majors in stolen bases with 15. "It is somewhere between usual and a surprise," Suzuki said. His only complaint about his performance Friday was letting Justice's homer get past him in the first inning. The ball, hit off John Halama (3-4), nicked the wall and bounced into the stands for a 4-0 lead. It was Justice's seventh home run of the season. "If I had jumped like Michael Jordan, I could have caught the home run, but I don't have the same jump," the 5-foot-9 Suzuki said. The Mariners, who swept a three-game series at Yankee Stadium in late April, missed the opportunity to go 23 games over .500 for the first time in the franchise history. Martinez connected in the Yankees' six-run fourth, when they broke a 5-5 tie. Bernie Williams, back after missing three games to attend his father's funeral in Puerto Rico, singled in the inning for his lone hit. Seattle second baseman Bret Boone committed a costly throwing error in the inning that led to five unearned runs. "It's a throw I make all the time, and tonight I didn't," Boone said. Halama said "it was not a fun day pitching today." "Both pitchers went out and got hit hard. My ball just found its way across the middle of the plate," he said. Seattle came back with three unearned runs in the first after shortstop Derek Jeter's error, and scored twice in the second to tie it at 5. "We held them to a touchdown and a field goal, and we had two touchdowns," New York's Derek Jeter said. "Both teams made mistakes. Good teams capitalize on it, and fortunately we were able to score more runs." Yankees starter Ted Lilly lasted just 1 1/3 innings, giving up five runs on five hits with two walks and a wild pitch. He plunked John Olerud in the helmet before he was relieved by Ramiro Mendoza (3-1).
Notes: Seattle stole five bases last Aug. 13 against Cleveland. ... Suzuki twice had a 23-game streak in 1994 with the Orix Blue Wave in Japan, where he was a seven-time batting champion. ... Martinez had his first four-hit game of the year. ... Mariners 3B David Bell was scratched from the starting lineup because of a knee injury suffered Thursday. A magnetic resonance imaging test Friday came up negative. He was listed as day-to-day. ... Jeter's first-inning fielding error was the Yankees' second in two games after going seven games without a miscue. ... Olerud has a 10-game hitting streak. ... The Mariners' bullpen streak of 13 scoreless innings was broken in the fourth. ... The 24 runs is the most scored in a game at Safeco Field.
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